No football club in this world has brought more national title: The Glasgow Rangers dominated the Scottish football – to the deep case. Now, the Rangers are back in there and put on Steven Gerrard.
ID figure with jet power – but also a good coach? Gerrard in front of a new task.
It was the 15. In may 2011, the last “great” day in the history of Rangers Football Club – the club that until today, more national Championships than any other in the world has won: After a 5:1 victory against Kilmarnock took the former Rangers captain David Weir on the Ibrox Stadium, the Scottish Champions trophy – to the 54. A captain of the proud club from the largest city in Scotland has the honor to be a part of it. What no one at the time knew: It should be the last Time.
Bitter demise or the end of the Rangers
Because, in fact, only the career of Weir not ended, but also the rich tradition of the Era of the record master in Scottish football-the upper house. The Rangers had to sign up in February, bankruptcy and then, with a newly formed operating company in the fourth division to start over. The Rangers would eventually, inevitably come back, because no one doubted in Scotland. But that was after the reorganisation of the club has all the Rangers?
Many Rangers Fans are unconditional traditionalists, the Tradition and the rivalry to Celtic are more important than the Champions League games against Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern. And so many Rangers supporters have struggled to accept the newly established club as your Rangers – mockery and mockery of the hated Celtic Fans there was, of course, at the top, which strengthened this feeling of alienation.
15. May 2011: The Rangers celebrate its last championship
One can understand the feelings of the Fans for sure because of its own, since this summer as a coach, the athletic fortunes of the Rangers: Steven Gerrard. The North British seems with the Takeover of the coach post in the Scottish tradition, the team returned there, where he feels most comfortable. On the pulse of such an emotional and historically valuable British football. Gerrard is supposed to be the Savior of the Rangers.
Gerrard – legend of Liverpool, the end of career in L. A.
Gerrard is the perfect identification figure for die-hard Fans. The football heart of the island needs no Star coach, it is the passion needs. Passion as she lived Gerrard in every second of his long career. Liverpool was at his feet, he embodied, however, as almost no second attachment, and Fidelity to the tradition of the club from the North West of England.
To be Liverpool Skipper, Gerrard, meant more than money and Glamour, Yes, even more than the title, had he at that time know that. So it was that one of his most serious error is welded to him and the club even closer together. 2014 was, Gerrard controlled slipped in the late autumn of his career at first League title with the Reds, as, of all things, the captain with a ball in the midfield and thus the way for Chelsea striker Demba Ba and the number of hits. The Bankruptcy cost Liverpool, ultimately, the title, two points were missing at the end to Manchester City. Sympathy or respect cost scene Gerrard. The Trauma he, the Fans and the club experienced together and stood up to meet it. He was also a legend that Gerrard always got up again. He had to let his Cousin in the disaster at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield in April 1989, his life. That Gerrard also has this darkest hour of the British football, a personal relation, gave him an Aura of authenticity. Gerrard was believed to the place of a, to the people.
Baptism by fire a success
More likely to be monetarily motivated trip to the L. A. Galaxy at the end of the career changed nothing, even if he seemed to speak of his previous biography. Meanwhile, Gerrard is back where he should be: As a worker in the British football everyday. In the case of the Glasgow Rangers, one relies on the experience collected by Gerrard in 18 years as a professional. It also relies on the figure of identification Gerrard, and it seems to play such a large role that his experience as a Trainer is still very clear. By 2017, he trained, after all, already in the youth sector of FC Liverpool. At the highest level must prove to the 114-times English national player, the first appearances as a Rangers Coach, were already promising.
L. A. Galaxy made Gerrard 32 games and scored five goals
During the mandatory in-game debut Gerrard in the first round of Europa League qualifying, there was in front of a Packed house at Ibrox Park, a safe 2:0 victory against KF Shkupi Macedonia, in the return game a week later, a 0-0 draw was enough for the Rangers for a spot in the next round. The first leg in the second round was also won 1:0. In the first three games under Gerrard, the Rangers could not duping and not conceding a single goal. The remained also in the return game at home against Osijek for a long time so: 1:0 led the Scots to Osijek in the injury time of the 1:1-end. For the Rangers, it was enough but all.
As sovereign as his Team on the court, the coach is shown next to it. On the provocative statements of Osijeks midfield man Robert Mudrazija (“We were better, stronger, tougher, and better organized”) reacted to Gerrard as one of his stature to react: The Champions League winners of 2005 could not be in a verbal skirmish embroiling. “We can’t control what you say. […] I concentrate on how my team feels. If the comments motivate us? Not really. My job is my Team and my players to prepare. We will respect our opponents.” And his look, the side-show to avoid, demanding respect and give – and next to it. So he lived and played the Sport, even as an extended Arm of its last Liverpool-Trainer Brendan Rodgers. Interesting Note: The Northern Irishman is sitting now on the bench at Celtic Park and is Gerrard sporting adversary number 1.
Attack on Celtic and the Ex-Coach
Two years, the Rangers are now back in League 1 in two years, ended up significantly behind Celtic, the gap should finally be closed. Celtic made the last, the seventh championship in a row and the 49. overall, brought. Either way, a stitch is a title of the hated arch-rival to the heart of every Rangers Fan. Celtic should the Rangers but in the near future as the record champion dethrone a shame – it would be for the Rangers-the Annex at least as distressing as the inglorious end of the great Rangers-Era 2012. So is Scotland, and especially Glasgow is The exultation of the arch-rival is in the city of the “Old Firm Derby” is probably even more painful than that of the own cute.
After the first round of Europa League qualification in the last year, Reaching the group stage this year would be a first success and also financially an important gain for the Rangers. The most important gains for Gerrard from FC Liverpool on-loan winger Ryan Kent, who was awarded last season at SC Freiburg (six games) and the English second division side Bristol City (ten games), and Gerrard and co.-Manager Gary McAllister and Michael Beale, who trained him in the U23 of the Reds, already knows from Liverpool, however, is. “I have now is a head of Steven Gerrard. Someone who has played at the highest level, and many great things. To learn from him, is great and I know some players here. To have Michael Beale, here is a Bonus, he has brought in Liverpool’s U23 already a lot out of me,” said Kent in his presentation. At his side: His new Trainer. Quiet, reserved but present as he ever was.
Now the 38-want to-Year-old to repeat as a coach and not a few in the environment of the large, rich tradition of Rangers Football Club are convinced that with him a new large Rangers-the age can begin. The largest gain for the proud club from Glasgow seems to be the new coach. On Sunday, Gerrard and the Rangers against Aberdeen to start the new League season and, perhaps, in a long and successful cooperation, as Gerrard as a player is impressive to show for it. And you will register then certainly in Liverpool…